Transforming Language Learning: Babbel Honored in 2025 GSV 150
Babbel, the world' s first online language learning platform, has been named amongst The GSV 150, the annual award compiled by GSV Ventures identifying the 150 companies making the biggest impact on education and lifelong learning globally. Babbel was recognized in the Adult Consumer Learning alongside industry leaders like Canva, Grammarly, and Top Hat.
This year’s honorees were selected from over 2,500 global venture capital- and private equity-backed companies, using a rigorous evaluation process. Collectively, the 2025 cohort represents over $25 billion in annual revenue and reaches more than 3 billion learners worldwide. Notably, the list also underscores the growing role of generative AI, which is embedded in nearly every company’s offerings this year.
“It is an honor to once again be recognized as one of the GSV 150 winners,” said Julie Hansen, U.S. CEO and CRO of Babbel. “This acknowledgment speaks to our continued mission of empowering learners everywhere through accessible, high-quality and personalized language education. Whether through our self-study courses, AI-powered conversation partner, extensive suite of magazine and podcast content, or our B2B offering, we enable our learners to open up a world of opportunities for personal growth, professional advancement, and cultural exchange.”
Babbel’s inclusion in the 2025 GSV 150 reflects its continued leadership in the language learning space. With over 16 million subscriptions sold and courses in 14 languages, Babbel remains committed to leading the language education industry and delivering effective and engaging learning pathways to students worldwide.
The GSV 150 winners will be celebrated at the 2025 ASU+GSV Summit, an annual gathering of leaders across the education, technology, and investment sectors, held in San Diego, CA.
About ASU+GSV Summit:
The ASU+GSV Summit, co-founded by Michael Moe and Deborah Quazzo, began in 2010 with a collaboration between Global Silicon Valley (GSV) and Arizona State University (ASU). Our north star is that ALL people have equal access to the future, and we believe that innovations at scale in "PreK to Gray" learning and skills are critical to achieving that end.
About Babbel
Driven by the purpose of creating mutual understanding through language, Babbel has been building digital language learning products for consumers and businesses since 2007. The Babbel app helps people connect and communicate across cultures, whether for travel, friendship, or career advancement. Based on a deep knowledge of how we learn languages, Babbel aims to make learners conversational as fast as possible. And it works: Studies from institutions like Michigan State University, Yale University and the City University of New York demonstrate the efficacy of Babbel's language learning methods. Millions of language learners agree.
Babbel's secret sauce is the blend of true expertise, understanding of how humans learn, and the latest technology. Starting with one of 60,000 lessons across 15 languages hand-crafted by experts, the learner experience constantly adapts through behavior analysis to provide high quality interactive content that makes understanding a new language easy, from Spanish to Indonesian.
Because Babbel is for everyone, its team reflects this diversity. Across headquarters in Berlin and New York, a team from more than 80 nationalities represent the backgrounds and perspectives that make humans unique. With over 25 million subscriptions sold and an industry-leading retention rate, Babbel creates genuine connections with learners worldwide. For more information, visit www.babbel.com or download the apps in the App Store or Play Store.
